Introduction

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.

All tools are command line which allows for heavy scripting. A lot of GUIs have taken advantage of this feature. It works primarily Linux but also Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, as well as Solaris and even eComStation 2.

It focuses on different areas of WiFi security:

Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools.

News

In this blog post, we answer some common questions regarding various topics: using drivers, driver development, embedded chipsets, 802.11n/ac capture/injection, a few different current chipsets/drivers (rtl8812au, ath9k_htc, QCA6174), linux-backports (aka compat-wireless) and some other good news.

9 Aug 2017

Blog post: lesser known features of Aircrack-ng: interactive mode and keys

In this blog post, we discuss another lesser known features of Aircrack-ng: interactive mode and keys in airodump-ng.

27 Mar 2017

Blog post: lesser known features of Aircrack-ng

In this blog post, we discuss some lesser known features of Aircrack-ng such as reading compressed wordlists, rainbow tables and distributed cracking.

Download

Current version

IMPORTANT Information Regarding Windows Version IMPORTANT
The windows version requires you to develop your own DLLs to link aircrack-ng to your wireless card. The required DLLs are not provided in the download nor available anywhere on the Internet. Without these DLLs, the windows version will not function. Do NOT post questions or problems to the forum regarding the windows version. At present, there is no support provided.